About the Authors

Adam J. Wyness

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a.wyness@ru.ac.za

Affiliations Sediment Ecology Research Group, Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, East Sands, St Andrews, United Kingdom, Coastal Research Group, Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa

Irene Fortune

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sediment Ecology Research Group, Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, East Sands, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Andrew J. Blight

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sediment Ecology Research Group, Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, East Sands, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Patricia Browne

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Sediment Ecology Research Group, Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, East Sands, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Morgan Hartley

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sediment Ecology Research Group, Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, East Sands, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Matthew Holden

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infection Group, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrew, United Kingdom

David M. Paterson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sediment Ecology Research Group, Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, East Sands, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.